Exploration & Colonization
The three reasons for Exploration
Wealth, Religion, Empire
Written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson stating freedom from Britain.
Declaration of Independence
The first Ten Amendments to the Constitution are also known by this title.
Bill of Rights
The belief that the US should expand from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean.
Manifest Destiny
The president of the US during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
This colonial Region has rocky soil and long winters
New England
Tax on all paper products
Stamp Act
The document that establishes the supreme law of the nation and limits the government's power
Constitution
The US doubled its size in 1803
Louisiana Purchase
The original Union plan to blockade the south.
Anaconda Plan
This is the first permanent English settlement
Jamestown
The first battle of the Revolution
The principle of government that ensures no branch can become more powerful than the other.
Checks and Balances
The movement to end slavery
Abolition
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War
Gettysburg
This is the route that many explorers sought in order to go around the New World to Asia
Northwest Passage
The boundary drawn by King George to prevent colonist from moving West
Proclamation Line
The type of government in which people elect representatives to govern.
Republic
The religious revival in the early 1800s
2nd Great Awakening
The Amendment that granted citizenship rights to freedmen
14th
This religious group settled the Middle Colonies region and were officially known as the Society of Friends
Quakers
The law that replaced the stamp act and placed a tax and multiple goods.
Townshend Acts
This Branch is responsible for interpreting the law and holds the power to determine if new laws are unconstitutional
Judicial Branch
Elizabeth Cady Stanton led this reform movement established at the Seneca Falls Convention
Women's Rights
This order freed all slaves in the Confederate States
Emancipation Proclamation
This strict religious group settled Massachusetts in order to escape religious persecution.
Puritans
The location of the winter encampment of the Continental Army in which they struggled to survive.
Valley Forge
The Principle of Government that divides power between state and federal governments, also established by the 10th Amendment
Federalism
The title of Jackson's forced removal of the Natives to the Indian Territory during the 1830s.
Trail of Tears
Restrictive and unfair laws against freedmen
Black Codes